The World Health Organization and the U.N. have declared that we’ll need to spend $1 billion to properly fight the dastardly swine flu. That’s one approach, I suppose. Another?

Drink whisky. Lots and lots of whisky. This according to some Russian soccer official who I find quite brilliant, and have no reason to distrust. Let us step into his wonderfully uncluttered & manly office:

“We urge our fans to drink a lot of Welsh whisky as a form of disinfection,” VOB head Alexander Shprygin told Reuters. “That should cure all symptoms of the disease.”

Oh, Russia … is there any problem you CAN’T solve with alcohol? You’re an inspiration to us all. Because beneath your drab exterior & frowny, scolding expressions, there lies the heart of a champion. And possibly the decayed liver of a lifelong drunkard. But mainly the former. Good for you.  

Functional alcoholism aside, there is a lesson to be learned somewhere in there for IndyCar. And that lesson is this:

Sometimes, less is more. And sometimes, the wildly complicated & expensive “solutions” only tend to compound the problem. Or at the very least, make it incredibly boring and waste away my precious weekend free time. 

The Kentucky race was what it was because the IndyCar brass went back to basics. Or so I’m told. I’m not smart enough to understand exactly what was done. But it was nothing new. Nothing expensive. Nothing complicated. And truthfully, hardly more unconventional in theory than warding off the swine flu with the natural power of whisky.

Your task? Keep the simplistic ball rolling. For there are certainly other uncomplicated suggestions to be made that will — in theory — better IndyCar as a whole. In the spirit of Alexander Shprygin, make them now, in the comments section. Or go drink some Welsh whisky & live confidently. Or preferably both.